Loganathan, Santhosh and Srinath, Purushothaman and Kumaraswamy, Mohan and Kalidindi, Satyanarayana and Varghese, Koshy
(2017)
Identifying and Addressing Critical Issues in the Indian Construction
Industry: Perspectives of Large Building Construction Clients.
Journal of Construction in Developing Countries , 22 (1).
pp. 121-144.
ISSN 1823-6499
Abstract
The Indian construction industry faces increasing challenges amidst serious
performance shortfalls. Confronting similar issues in past decades, other countries such as the
UK, USA, and Singapore commissioned high-powered studies and set up industry development
bodies to address their own priorities. Initiatives in other countries are briefly reviewed before
outlining the launch of the “Construction Industry Improvement Initiative India” (Ci3 India)
that aims to address our own challenges. This paper focuses on identifying and launching
a platform to address the current and imminent critical issues in the Indian Construction
Industry. Nineteen critical issues were identifed, verifed, and validated through four focus
group sessions at two Regional Roundtables with 54 high calibre large building construction
clients, academicians, and other invited experts. The identifed issues were consolidated to
10 Action Items. Seven Action Teams were then mobilized to work on the 10 Action Items.
Having consolidated a base consensus of clients on the way forward, it was also proposed
to develop a “Construction Clients’ Charter” that will set out basic principles, protocols, and
targeted good practices by lead clients, who by voluntarily agreeing and implementing these
together, could catalyse signifcant industry improvements
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